Letters: Reds are up-and-coming team despite record

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Cincinnati Reds third baseman Nick Senzel (15) is mobbed by his teammates after hitting a walk-off two-run home run-in the ninth inning of the MLB Interleague game between the Cincinnati Reds and the Texas Rangers at Great American Ball Park in downtown Cincinnati on Wednesday, April 26, 2023. The Reds won 5-3 on a walkoff two-run home run by Nick Senzel.

What a great day in the history of Cincinnati going all the way back to the Losantiville days. The Reds − a bunch of nobodies with 6,000 fans in the stands − swept the Texas Rangers. Nick Senzel’s walk-off home run was accompanied by tears of joy. The team jumped up and down, dousing each other with Gatorade like a bunch of Little Leaguers. Graham Ashcraft gave a gutty pitching performance, shedding tears for his loving grandmother who died on Sunday. Manager David Bell got choked up trying to explain the love in the locker room. I say this is a terrific team − World Series bound (sooner or later) if you ask me. In the meantime, cheese conies for the season for those 6,000 diehard fans, and bobble heads for all 27 players and the coaches, as well.

Robert Newman, Hyde Park

Left-wing media just as poisonous as Fox News

I agree with the letter writer who criticized the Fox News "settlement" in which there was no public trial and Fox wasn't even forced to apologize for their "lies" ("Fox News will continue to poison our democracy despite settlement," April 27). His letter would have been much more powerful if he'd mentioned the myriad of similar abuses from left-wing media sources (CNN, The New York Times, etc.). But, as is usually the case, some people can only see one side of an issue and that undermines what could have been a meaningful commentary. Too bad.

Marion Schiffer, Hyde Park

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